We’ve got a new DCS World Weekend News report coming in and this one has some interesting stuff in it if you’ve been waiting all year for news about their full fidelity MiG-29 project. The aircraft is reportedly coming in Quarter 2 of 2025. There’s screenshots and details so let’s have a look!
Fulcrum coming soon
The MiG-29 needs little introduction with this Russian designed and built aircraft serving in multiple countries in the 1980s through to the modern day. The jet still manages to occasionally make aviation headlines such is its impact. Eagle Dynamics confirmed to us about 12-months ago that the DCS: MiG-29 was coming after years of rumours.
Eagle Dynamics has been working on the exterior model, the avionics, cockpit, and aircraft systems over the last several months. They also report that the aircraft is the first of their aircraft developments that has been created while making use of photogrammetry – scanning a real world aircraft to get the exact measurements and details.
We generated a huge number of photos and videos of the aircraft, and we completely reworked the external model. Based on this reference data and factory diagrams, we were able to include an exceptional level of detail for items such as surface materials and treatment, rivets, screws, and panel joints. The new normal map reflects the structure of the aircraft skin to a high degree of accuracy, with texture resolution increased by 400%.
Systems in progress include the optical laser system, IRST, air-to-air targeting modes, the gunsight (which they say was not a trivial task), ground attack sighting with wind correction, recreated the fire control radar, and work on the SPO-15LM RWR as well. They talk a bit about the challenges and goals with the rework:
The SPO-15LM radar warning receiver, also known as Product L006LM, has been completely rewritten. The new SPO-15 uses the same physics-based approach as the SPO-10, but with greater attention being paid to its second iteration of directivity patterns for transmitting and receiving antennas. The latter being of particularly high importance to Soviet RWR designs due to the independent processing of an output from each azimuth sector antenna. Additionally, the database has been expanded, with each radar having a unique signature in terms of signal properties and with the properties themselves covering additional details.
They are also underway with the INS and IFF. Notably, the IFF system will be a work in progress at launch and continue to work in additional features later on. This is not unlike many DCS World products at this point and is unsurprising.
Together with the lengthy status update, which you can read here, we’ve also got a ton of screenshots. I grabbed and am displaying just some of the shots that are on display. Here we can see the more accurate and detailed cockpit lighting, cockpit textures, exterior model, and lighting on display. Check out the rest of the screenshots here!
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